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Cao Guan is affiliated with Northwestern Polytechnical University in China and has a substantial publication record in engineering and materials science. Their research predominantly falls within the subfields of electrical and electronic engineering, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, renewable energy, sustainability and the environment, biomedical engineering, and materials chemistry.

Among Cao Guan's main research topics are advanced battery technologies, supercapacitor materials and fabrication, and advancements in battery materials and technologies. Additional focus areas include electrocatalysts for energy conversion, advanced sensor and energy harvesting materials, and conducting polymers and their applications.

Coauthors frequently collaborating with Cao Guan include Qinghe Cao, Yong Gao, Fan Bu, Jie Pu, and Xi Xu.

Major publication venues for Cao Guan's work include:

  • Advanced Materials
  • Advanced Functional Materials
  • Chemical Engineering Journal
  • Small
  • Advanced Energy Materials

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Cao Guan are:

  • Gradient design of imprinted anode for stable Zn-ion batteries, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Regulating Dendrite-Free Zinc Deposition by 3D Zincopilic Nitrogen-Doped Vertical Graphene for High-Performance Flexible Zn-Ion Batteries, 2021, Advanced Functional Materials
  • Recent developments of advanced micro-supercapacitors: design, fabrication and applications, 2020, npj Flexible Electronics
  • Flexible Energy Storage Devices to Power the Future, 2023, Advanced Materials
  • N-doped porous carbon nanoplates embedded with CoS2 vertically anchored on carbon cloths for flexible and ultrahigh microwave absorption, 2020, Carbon

Best Publications

  • Rational Design of Metal‐Organic Framework Derived Hollow NiCo2O4 Arrays for Flexible Supercapacitor and Electrocatalysis

    Cao Guan;Ximeng Liu;Weina Ren;Xin Li

  • Hollow Mo-doped CoP nanoarrays for efficient overall water splitting

    Cao Guan;Wen Xiao;Haijun Wu;Ximeng Liu

  • Ultrathin MoS2 Nanosheets@Metal Organic Framework-Derived N-Doped Carbon Nanowall Arrays as Sodium Ion Battery Anode with Superior Cycling Life and Rate Capability

    Weina Ren;Haifeng Zhang;Cao Guan;Chuanwei Cheng

  • A new type of porous graphite foams and their integrated composites with oxide/polymer core/shell nanowires for supercapacitors : structural design, fabrication, and full supercapacitor demonstrations

    Xinhui Xia;Dongliang Chao;Zhanxi Fan;Cao Guan

  • A Flexible Quasi-Solid-State Nickel-Zinc Battery with High Energy and Power Densities Based on 3D Electrode Design.

    Jinping Liu;Cao Guan;Cheng Zhou;Zhen Fan

  • Iron Oxide-Decorated Carbon for Supercapacitor Anodes with Ultrahigh Energy Density and Outstanding Cycling Stability

    Cao Guan;Jilei Liu;Yadong Wang;Lu Mao

  • Metal Phosphides and Phosphates-based Electrodes for Electrochemical Supercapacitors.

    Xin Li;Abdelnaby M. Elshahawy;Cao Guan;John Wang

  • Hollow Co3O4 Nanosphere Embedded in Carbon Arrays for Stable and Flexible Solid‐State Zinc–Air Batteries

    Cao Guan;Afriyanti Sumboja;Haijun Wu;Weina Ren

  • Synthesis of Free‐Standing Metal Sulfide Nanoarrays via Anion Exchange Reaction and Their Electrochemical Energy Storage Application

    Xinhui Xia;Xinhui Xia;Changrong Zhu;Jingshan Luo;Zhiyuan Zeng

  • Solution synthesis of metal oxides for electrochemical energy storage applications

    Xinhui Xia;Xinhui Xia;Yongqi Zhang;Dongliang Chao;Cao Guan

  • Hybrid structure of cobalt monoxide nanowire @ nickel hydroxidenitrate nanoflake aligned on nickel foam for high-rate supercapacitor

    Cao Guan;Jinping Liu;Chuanwei Cheng;Hongxing Li

  • Single Co Atoms Anchored in Porous N-Doped Carbon for Efficient Zinc−Air Battery Cathodes

    Wenjie Zang;Afriyanti Sumboja;Afriyanti Sumboja;Yuanyuan Ma;Yuanyuan Ma;Hong Zhang

  • Cactus-Like NiCoP/NiCo-OH 3D Architecture with Tunable Composition for High-Performance Electrochemical Capacitors

    Xin Li;Haijun Wu;Abdelnaby M. Elshahawy;Ling Wang

  • Gradient design of imprinted anode for stable Zn-ion batteries

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  • Rationally Designed Hierarchical TiO2@Fe2O3 Hollow Nanostructures for Improved Lithium Ion Storage

    Jingshan Luo;Xinhui Xia;Yongsong Luo;Cao Guan

  • Sulfur-doped cobalt phosphide nanotube arrays for highly stable hybrid supercapacitor

    Abdelnaby M. Elshahawy;Cao Guan;Xin Li;Hong Zhang

  • Decorating Co/CoNx nanoparticles in nitrogen-doped carbon nanoarrays for flexible and rechargeable zinc-air batteries

    Cao Guan;Afriyanti Sumboja;Wenjie Zang;Yuhong Qian

  • MOF-derived nanohybrids for electrocatalysis and energy storage: current status and perspectives

    Hong Zhang;Ximeng Liu;Yue Wu;Cao Guan

  • Regulating Dendrite-Free Zinc Deposition by 3D Zincopilic Nitrogen-Doped Vertical Graphene for High-Performance Flexible Zn-Ion Batteries

    Qinghe Cao;Heng Gao;Yong Gao;Jie Yang

  • A general strategy toward graphene@metal oxide core–shell nanostructures for high-performance lithium storage

    Weiwei Zhou;Jixin Zhu;Chuanwei Cheng;Jinping Liu;Jinping Liu

  • Highly Stable and Reversible Lithium Storage in SnO2 Nanowires Surface Coated with a Uniform Hollow Shell by Atomic Layer Deposition

    Cao Guan;Xinghui Wang;Qing Zhang;Zhanxi Fan

  • A High Energy and Power Li‐Ion Capacitor Based on a TiO2 Nanobelt Array Anode and a Graphene Hydrogel Cathode

    Huanwen Wang;Cao Guan;Xuefeng Wang;Hong Jin Fan

  • High‐Performance Flexible Solid‐State Ni/Fe Battery Consisting of Metal Oxides Coated Carbon Cloth/Carbon Nanofiber Electrodes

    Cao Guan;Wei Zhao;Yating Hu;Qingqing Ke

Frequent Co-Authors

John Wang
John Wang National University of Singapore
Hong Jin Fan
Hong Jin Fan Nanyang Technological University
Hua Zhang
Hua Zhang City University of Hong Kong
Stephen J. Pennycook
Stephen J. Pennycook University of Tennessee at Knoxville
Chuanwei Cheng
Chuanwei Cheng Tongji University
Xinhui Xia
Xinhui Xia Zhejiang University
Haijun Wu
Haijun Wu Xi'an Jiaotong University
Zongkui Kou
Zongkui Kou Wuhan University of Technology
Jinping Liu
Jinping Liu Wuhan University of Technology
Zhiyuan Zeng
Zhiyuan Zeng City University of Hong Kong

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